Video problem with gmotionlive

I was hoping to use an RPi as a remote monitor/client to a server running Ken Lavrsen's "motion" application.

I'd like to use gmotionlive, which is a simple, light-weight, gtk viewer for streaming webcams that use multipart/x-mixed-replace streams.

When I run the "gmotionlive" app on the RPi I get an image with horizontal tearing, and each horizontal "block" is usually colour tinted.

I get a similar problem if I run motion on RPi, and monitor motion video locally on the RPi using gmotionlive.

However, if I run IceWeasel on RPi I don't have this video problem. But after running for maybe 10-15secs with cpu at 100% the RPi hangs. IceWeasel is way too heavy for RPi.

gmotionlive works fine on my laptop, and I've checked a list of dependancies and found all packages are installed.

Anyone had experience of this, or have any suggestions?

Presuming you are using Raspbian (Debian Wheezy 7) ARMHF Distro. could you not run Iceweasel from command Line so the GUI is not loaded.

I believe the the commands are:

startx /usr/bin/iceweasel
or
xinit /usr/biniceweasel

There is software call devilspie2 which allows the software to be sized/placed in X

http://www.gusnan.se/devilspie2

There is also available the original devilspie software

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Devilspie


..both are in the Raspbian repositories

...run Iceweasel from command Line so the GUI is not loaded...

Thanks for your input Cloudcentric.

I tried: startx /usr/bin/iceweasel
...but once again the cpu load was too much and the system froze after a few seconds.

I've gone back to an earlier idea, to use VLC (which I rejected because I'd read that VLC can't handle very low frame rates).
Anyway, the magic recipe is to use a URL like this:-
http://{ip addr}:{port}/?action=stream

This displays the mjpeg video from motion and only creates cpu load of around 25-30%.